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[ECrownofFire]

Headphones are really cheap now. I think a few dollar stores even have them.

[Itnetlolor]

Cosecant, secant, tangent, and cotangent are much more fun to graph than boring old sine and cosine.
Oh, and calculator porn.
Once you see it, you can't not see it.

Oh yeah, COS and SIN rule34.

Many intersections until n.

Can't forget their evil twins COS(-x) and SIN(-x). Of course, the SIN twins are fraternal twins, and the COS twins are identical twins.

[Vector]

Oh, and happy things... I worked on Japanese and French today, and it seems to all be coming back to me.  Well, reasonable amounts, anyway, and I now know the kanji for two species of mushroom and four different kinds of tree.

Also have novel ideas coming along at a good clip, and I finished reading Flatland--which was ultimately rather surprising in its structure and strong social criticism.  It was also rather interesting to see, in the forward, that a significant number of people couldn't figure out that it was a satire and accused Abbott of misogyny.

Plus, I learned a new word for "stripper," drank out of a coconut with a straw, and have three hours to do math until I collapse into bed with Sherlock Holmes.

[ToonyMan]

Junior Electronics was all about sine waves, I could never forget about them now.

[Heron TSG]

Junior Electronics was all about sine waves, I could never forget about them now.

Ah, Alternating Current. The most variable of them all.

Oh, and happy things... I worked on Japanese and French today, and it seems to all be coming back to me.  Well, reasonable amounts, anyway, and I now know the kanji for two species of mushroom and four different kinds of tree.

Kanji sounds as if it will be hard when I get to it. A different symbol for every word seems ludicrously complicated.

[ein]

I apparently missed that there was a foreword, so I got up to grab my copy of Flatland, only to find it buried underneath 2 copies of A Farewell to Arms, 2 copies of the Odyssey, the Iliad, Ethan Frome, the Art of War, Down an Out in Paris and London, Call of the Wild, the Sun Also Rises, the Old Man and the Sea, Perelandra, the Gunslinger, and the Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe.
Underneath Flatland are the Zombie Survival Guide, Tolkien's Unfinished Tales, Forward the Foundation, Falling Up, and a textbook on Environmental Science.

[ToonyMan]

This year (Senior) Electronics is all about binary/hexadecimal, bit/nipple/byte, and logic gate stuff.

I know how binary and all those logic gates mean now, like OR NOR AND NAND XOR XNOR yeah.

[Realmfighter]

Nipple logic gate.

Really?

[dragnar]

Junior Electronics was all about sine waves, I could never forget about them now.

Ugh, the one sort of physics I can't stand. Don't know why, but I hate electrical physics... and I'm majoring in Comp Sci/Math.

This year (Senior) Electronics is all about binary/hexadecimal, bit/nipple/byte, and logic gate stuff.

I know how binary and all those logic gates mean now, like OR NOR AND NAND XOR XNOR yeah.

Now that I enjoy. I'm building them in one of my classes this semester.

I apparently missed that there was a foreword, so I got up to grab my copy of Flatland, only to find it buried underneath 2 copies of A Farewell to Arms, 2 copies of the Odyssey, the Iliad, Ethan Frome, the Art of War, Down an Out in Paris and London, Call of the Wild, the Sun Also Rises, the Old Man and the Sea, Perelandra, the Gunslinger, and the Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe.
Underneath Flatland are the Zombie Survival Guide, Tolkien's Unfinished Tales, Forward the Foundation, Falling Up, and a textbook on Environmental Science.

I approve this selection of books.

Nipple logic gate.

Really?

...he meant nibble. It's a terrible pun on the term byte. Was originally spelled nybble.

[Vector]

Oh, and happy things... I worked on Japanese and French today, and it seems to all be coming back to me.  Well, reasonable amounts, anyway, and I now know the kanji for two species of mushroom and four different kinds of tree.

Kanji sounds as if it will be hard when I get to it. A different symbol for every word seems ludicrously complicated.

It's actually not too bad after a while--you learn eventually that all the different kinds of fish will have "generic fish" crammed in with something else, animals will have "animal thing," things related to time will have "sun," and so on.

Plus, there's only 1800 kanji you really need to know to read Japanese--so if you learned 6 a day for a year, you'd know them all at the end.  My pace is rather more leisurely, but I've found that it all adds up quite quickly.


@Ein: Hemingway fan?  My copy is currently on the shelf by a Journey to the West ripoff, FFVIII (PC version), the Jane Yolen dragon trilogy, and the Prydain books.  This shelf is directly below a bunch of stuff by Pratchett.

(Ran out of space on the "miscellaneous books" shelf and had to run over into the series section)


EDIT: The disproportionate number of quotes I have in the out-of-context thread is kind of scary at this point.

[ECrownofFire]

Actually, a nibble is half of a byte.

[ToonyMan]

Actually, a nibble is half of a byte.

I was going to say this.

[ein]

Strangely enough, I've only read the Old Man and the Sea, but liked it.
Not read the others.
I have no system of organization for my books, and I have five such stacks of books, as well as two shelves, packed as tight as can be, a bunch of books on the top of the shelving unit, and a lot of books on my bed.

[dragnar]

Actually, a nibble is half of a byte.

Yes, it's 4 bits. But the name is still a terrible, terrible pun.

[ToonyMan]

I wish they called 16-bit a munch.